Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Ed.D. received her doctorate from the Pedagogy and Philosophy Program at Montclair State University. Recently, she published Confronting Orientalism A Self-Study of Educating Through Hindu Dance. She serves as Regional Coordinator on the Executive Board of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.Christopher L. Fici is a Ph.D candidate at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He serves currently as the President of the Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion, as well as Co-Chair within that region for the Comparative Religion and Ecology section.Gerald S. Vigna is Associate Professor of Theology at Alvernia University in Reading, PA. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at Temple University and Northwestern University respectively. Currently, he is Vice-President/President-Elect of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.

• 1 Introduction Part I: Our Role as Public Intellectuals 2 The Future of Religious and Theological Studies: What Is Our Responsibility as Public Intellectuals? 3 Claiming Our Voice: Religious Studies and Public Scholarship 4 A Scholar’s Lament: Public Acts of Grief in a Nation of Religious Minorities Part II: Public Intellectual Theology for the Common Good in the Post-Truth Era 5 Tragedy and Resistance: Religious and Theological Studies for the Common Good 6 Chess Boards and Boxing Gloves: Public Theology, Aesthetics, and Post-Truth Politics 7 Theological Inquiry and Leadership in a "Post-Truth" Era: Insights from Blessed Oscar Romero Part III: Pedagogy and Praxis of the Public Intellectual 8 Decolonizing the Classroom: Experimental Strategies for Decolonial Pedagogy and Praxis 9 The Responsibility and Limits of Military Chaplains as Public Theologians 10 Religion and Leadership: Taking Some Cues from Focolare’s ‘Inundations’ 11 The Faithful Frame: Interfaith Conversation and the Role of the Public Intellectual Part IV: Public Intellectualism Across The Borderlines of Religion and History 12 Welcoming Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Role of Religious Discourse in the Case of Diyanet 13 The Philosophy of Islamic Sufism in Public and Private Piety 14 Public Intellectuals at the Dawn of the Anthropocene Age: Can we ReMember? 15 Theological Anthropology: Christianity's Metaphysic of Oppression 16 Conclusion: Scholars of Religion and the Duty to Speak and Act